Hi Mike,
In fact Armstrong put his foot on the moon now at 12:56 AEST.
I actually feel sorry for those who were too young or were not born who missed it.
By far the most monumental day in history I have ever witnessed and we all knew and appreciated this fact at the time.
As a background story that was going on at the time, the Soviets had launched their own unmanned space vehicle that was also
in lunar orbit at the same time as Apollo 11. As Cold War tensions were still high, everyone was asking what were they up to
and the worse fear was that somehow this would jeopardize the Apollo 11 crew. The Soviet vehicle began its decent after
Armstrong and Aldrin had already performed their EVA but apparently then crashed. The Soviets at the time simply made a brief
announcement that it had completed its mission. As it transpired, the vehicle was later identified as
Luna 15 which was
an unmanned lander that had been designed to retrieve a soil sample and return it to Earth. It was a dramatic end to the Space Race.